The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the first civil contract to design and construct a stretch of the North-South Corridor (NSC) to Samsung C&T Corporation at a contract sum of S$809 million.

Scope of Contract

2.  Samsung C&T Corporation will design and construct a 1.25km stretch of tunnels with two entry ramp tunnels and two exit ramp tunnels between Novena Rise and Toa Payoh Rise. Commuter facilities such as pedestrian overhead bridges, sheltered linkways, bus-stops and cycling paths will also be built along this stretch as part of the contract. Please refer to the Annex for a location map of the part of NSC being constructed.

3.  Samsung C&T Corporation is an established contractor in South Korea and has completed numerous road and railway infrastructure projects in South Korea and overseas. Samsung C&T Corporation has a good track record in Singapore as they have completed several major projects including the construction of North-South Line’s Marina South Pier Station, a 1.75km stretch of the Marina Coastal Expressway as well as the Downtown Line 3’s Expo and Upper Changi Stations.

4.  Samsung C&T Corporation are also currently involved in the construction of Xilin Station and tunnels as part of the Downtown Line Extension and the Caldecott and Marine Parade Stations as part of the Thomson-East Coast Line.

5.  Works for this stretch of the NSC are expected to commence in 2018. The civil contracts for the rest of the NSC’s tender packages are expected to be awarded in 2018/2019.

About the NSC

6.  Originally conceived as the North-South Expressway covering 21.5km to connect growing towns in the North region to the city centre, the LTA re-designed it as  the North-South Corridor, Singapore’s first integrated transport corridor featuring continuous bus lanes and at-grade cycling trunk routes, to serve public bus commuters, cyclists and pedestrians, in line with our car-lite vision. The NSC is expected to be completed in 2026.


Annex: Location map of the part of NSC being constructed